Canton
Preservation
Society

131 Wertz Ave NW
Canton, OH 44708
330-452-9341

About
the Canton Preservation Society

In 1977, responding to an increasing need to protect
those architectural and historical treasures which make the Canton,
Ohio area unique, a group of concerned citizens formed a non-profit
corporation, the Canton Preservation Society. CPS is dedicated to preserving
significant buildings and to educating the community about the benefits
of historic preservation.

To achieve these goals, the Canton Preservation
Society:

publishes a quarterly newsletter, The Preservationist,
to keep CPS members fully informed about preservation issues;view a recent edition here

catalogues local structures, sites and districts
using the Ohio Historic Inventory, and photographically documents
buildings which cannot be preserved;

assists property owners with nominations for the
National Register of Historic Places;

operates the Preservation Resource Library at the
Hartung House to provide assistance and reference materials on
preservation and restoration;

acts as a liaison between our community and the
Ohio Historic Preservation Society and the National Trust for
Historic Preservation

In addition to our daily, on-going
activities above, we are most proud of these achievements:

Instrumental in developing a Revolving Loan Fund
in partnership with the City of Canton.

We purchased all the land and buildings on the
east side of the 200 block of Market Avenue North for the eventual
complete donation to the Millennium Centre development. When
this project was initially threatened during the planning stages,
CPS and the Chamber of Commerce contributed $125,000.00 each
to the project. Then when the project was threatened a second
time with cost overruns, CPS loaned the developer another $120,000.00
to be repaid over a term of ten years.

We purchased the three buildings on the west side
of that same street to stop their continued decay and then sold
them to local preservationist and developer Steve Coon for their
rehabilitation.

We saved the 100-year-old Hartung Mansion from
the wrecking ball and relocated it within a three-month period.
We
are presently in the process of restoring the home for our home,
resource library and public use.